cannot access website I've used for past year

The first thing to try: another computer connected to another ISP / DNS. Friend, family, school, work, public library, where-ever. If that fails, it's not computer but that site. Sites come and sites go, you know. And sometimes they are temporarily out of order, although 4 to 5 weeks is rather long.

If that works, the second thing to try: your laptop somewhere else. Friend, family, school, work, public hotspot where-ever. If it works now, it's your ISP that is to blame.

If it doesn't work try another browser (choose from Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer) in a new Windows account on on your laptop on that same other place other PC's/laptops work.

If it still fails then, please come back here and post all your findings.

What happens, by the way, if you don't access that 'second' website from the first, but from your history, your favorites (it must be a favorite or you wouldn't have posted this) or by typing the URL directly in the address bar of your browser?

Kees.

See if that works, if not be sure that your PC isn't doing some updating in the backgrd., if so allow it to finish. You can also, check to see if you manually enter the website that's causing an issue. Close your current browser and then try manually entering the web address and see how it goes. I use CCleaner is order to clean the browsing cache or/or history, it cleans them all or relevant to it. This helps in a general way and just use the default setting if you do this.

Check your bkgrd. and see what's going on it maybe simply too busy or you never finished from a prior visit, etc., it just needs more time. Also, there's the possibility that the website itself is at fault and just doesn't get it until fixed.

tada -----Willy